Kronos Racing is a Belgian auto racing and rally team.
History Kronos Racing was set up in 1994, and ran circuit racing and rallying programmes on behalf of Peugeot Belgium/Luxembourg. The team's Peugeot 306 GTIs won the Spa 24 Hours in 1999 and 2000, the last two years that the event was run as a touring car race. In 2003 Bruno Thiry won the European Rally Championship in a Peugeot 206 WRC run by the team. In 2004, Citroën Sport chose Kronos to run their programme in the Junior World Rally Championship, extending their partnership with the PSA Group. Dani Sordo won the JWRC in 2005 while driving for the team, while Manfred Stohl scored overall two podium finishes driving a Kronos-run Citroën Xsara WRC.
In 2006 Citroën took a year out of the WRC to develop the C4 WRC, and therefore used Kronos to enter Xsara WRCs under the Kronos Total Citroën World Rally Team banner. Sébastien Loeb took his third Drivers' title for Citroën thanks to Kronos, beating the Ford World Rally Team and driver Marcus Grönholm. Kronos also ran Xavier Pons and Sordo, while Colin McRae drove on one event as a stand-in for the injured Loeb.
In 2007 Kronos continued to run Xsaras in the WRC, mainly for Stohl. In addition, Kronos began competing in the Intercontinental Rally Challenge with Peugeot, winning the title in 2008 with Nicolas Vouilloz. In 2009, Kris Meeke won the title for Peugeot UK, his car run by Kronos.
WRC Results Year Car No Driver 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 WDC Points TC Points 2004 Citroën Xsara WRC 15 Juuso Pykälistö MON SWE MEX NZL CYP GRE TUR ARG FINRet GER JPN GBR ITARet FRA ESP AUS - 0 - - 2005 Citroën Xsara WRC 16 Manfred Stohl MON6 SWE MEX NZL9 ITA9 CYP2 TUR GRE20 ARG8 FINRet GERRet GBR5 JPN FRA ESP AUS3 9th 22 - - 17 Xavier Pons MON SWE MEX NZL ITA CYP TUR GRE10 ARG10 FIN12 GER9 GBR11 JPN FRA7 ESP4 AUSRet 15th 7 21 Juuso Pykälistö MON SWE MEX NZL ITA8 CYP TUR GRE ARG FIN GER GBR JPN FRA ESP AUS 27th 1 2006 Citroën Xsara WRC 1 Sébastien Loeb MON2 SWE2 MEX1 ESP1 FRA1 ARG1 ITA1 GRE2 DEU1 FIN2 JPN1 CYP1 1st 112 2nd 166 Colin McRae TURRet - 0 Xavier Pons AUS4 NZL4 GBR5 7th 32 2 MON9 SWE7 MEXRet ESPRet FRA6 ARG17 ITA4 GRE8 Dani Sordo DEU2 FINRet JPNDSQ CYPRet TUR7 AUS23 NZL5 GBR7 5th 49 14 MON8 SWE16 MEX4 ESP2 FRA3 ARG5 ITA3 GRE6 Xavier Pons DEU14 FINRet JPNDNS CYP7 TUR4 7th 32 2007 Citroën Xsara WRC 5 Manfred Stohl MON10 SWE7 NOR12 MEX6 POR9 ARG8 ITA7 GRE8 FINRet GERRet NZL12 ESPRet FRA14 JPN6 IRERet GBR8 9th 13 5th 45 6 Daniel Carlsson MON SWE5 NOR7 MEX POR6 ARG ITARet GRE FIN 14th 9 François Duval GER2 NZL ESP5 FRARet JPN IRE GBR 10th 12
IRC results Year Car Entrant Driver 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 WDC Points 2007 Peugeot 207 S2000 Peugeot Sport España Enrique García Ojeda KEN TUR3 BEL2 RUS2 POR4 CZE2 ITA6 SWI2 CHI 1st 47 Nicolas Vouilloz KEN TUR1 BELRet RUS3 POR9 CZE1 ITA3 SWI1 CHI 2nd 42 Peugeot Team Belux Bernd Casier KEN TUR BEL4 RUS POR5 CZE5 ITA14 SWIRet CHI 8th 13 2008 Peugeot 207 S2000 Peugeot Team Bel-Lux Nicolas Vouilloz TUR2 POR3 BEL2 RUS5 POR1 CZE2 ESP2 ITA2 SWI2 CHI 1st 68 Freddy Loix IST8 PORRet YPR1 RUS4 MAD6 ZLI1 AST3 SAN5 VAL1 CHN 2nd 48 BF Goodrich Drivers Team Miguel Campos IST PORRet - 0 Patrick Snijers YPR5 RUS MAD 18th 4 Pavel Valoušek ZLI4 15th 5 Sergio Vallejo AST7 28th 2 Andrea Torlasco SAN9 VAL CHN - 0 2009 Peugeot 207 S2000 Peugeot UK Kris Meeke MONRet CUR1 KEN AZO1 BEL1 RUS POR5 CZE2 ESP2 ITA1 SCODSQ 1st 66 Peugeot Team Belux Freddy Loix MON2 CUR4 KEN AZO4 YPR3 RUS MAD6 ZLIRet AST6 ITA4 SCO 3rd 37 Nicolas Vouilloz MONRet CUR2 KEN AZO3 BELRet RUS POR4 CZERet ESP3 ITA3 SCO 4th 31 Pieter Tsjoen MON CUR KEN AZO YPR4 RUS MAD ZLI AST ITA SCO 19th 5 BF Goodrich Drivers Team Sébastien Ogier MON1 CUR KEN AZO 8th 10 Thierry Neuville BELRet RUS POR - 0 Martin Prokop CZE5 ESP 24th 4 Luca Cantamessa ITA7 37th 2 Adam Gould SCORet - 0 2010 Peugeot 207 S2000 Peugeot UK Kris Meeke MONRet BRA1 ARGRet CAN4 ITARet BELRet AZO2 MADRet CZE4 ITA4 SCO3 CYP 3rd 39 Peugeot Team Bel-Lux Thierry Neuville MON BRA ARG CANRet ITA4 BEL3 AZO MAD CZERet ITA8 SCORet CYP 9th 12 2011 Peugeot 207 S2000 Peugeot Team Bel-Lux Thierry Neuville MONRet CAN3 COR 1 YAL6 YPRRet AZO ZLI4 MEC2 SAN 1 SCO 6 CYP Ret 5th 115 Peugeot UK Guy Wilks MON3 CAN5 CORRet YAL5 YPR4 AZORet ZLIRet MECRet SANRet SCORet CYP 7th 47
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